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Puzzle Pieces of Life
Yesterday I was thinking about how puzzle pieces relate to life, and then I thought about when I was little and used to put puzzles together with my grandma. They weren't little kid puzzles though, they had 100 pieces so I really had to pay attention to the picture on...
Piano Lessons
When I took piano lessons as a child, I learned a few things about learning and how they apply to life in general. Sometimes you just have to keep doing something over and over. Sometimes you need to stop doing it over and over for a while and come back to it....
The Desire to Belong
I was looking through some things I wrote several years ago and thought I'd share part of it: "Why do we like to be in groups? Why do we seek to attach ourselves to things and people that give us status or purpose? Because that is another thing for which we are made!...
Tailor Made: Temptation and Grace
I don't think often enough about the spiritual war that is constantly being waged where I can't see with my physical eyes. It's always happening, whether I think about it or not, whether I'm awake or asleep. God and Satan are at odds. That doesn't mean that it's a...
Strikes Me Interesting – The Idea of God
Cultures all over the world have ideas of a god or gods, all sorts of stories that have to do with higher powers outside of ourselves. It strikes me interesting that we all have the idea that there is something beyond what we can see. We all have a deep need to make...
Present and Future Persecution
We often think of the early church or the later part of the End Times when we talk about persecution. But it wasn't just the early Christians that were persecuted, and it isn't just future Christians that will be persecuted. Many Christians the world over are...